A 4 star resort set about a 15 minute walk to Carvoeiro beach which was perfect, you can see the apartment on my Youtube

The resort as you would expect being a hot climate had it’s own swimming pools

One which was a shallow depth pool, perfect for younger children, not that there were many in our resort despite being the Easter holidays

Dinning Out

The town which was at the foot of the beach was full of restaurants, bars and eateries

Just what I needed, as even though I was in a self catering apartment I had no intentions of cooking

Being a coastal town fish dishes were specialties on most menus, Seabream and Seabass featured heavily

As well as King Prawns much to my delight

Oh and Gelato shops a plenty!

The Gelato in Portugal was incredible the concoction of flavours they sold were heavenly

Who would ever think about making Rice Pudding Gelato?

And who would ever think rice in Gelato would taste so nice?

A Gelato a day keeps the doctor away

Wine

Portugal is well know for producing fine red wine, and being a red wine fan I indulged in the odd glass or two I was there

I agree the wine is delicious.

Typically young grapes, fruity and very palatable

Exactly what you would expect from hot climate wines, and tasted even better locally

Wine was also typically one of the cheapest drinks on the menu, in some places it was more expensive to buy a glass of coke or lemonade than it was a glass of wine. This is because of the import tax they pay which is then passed on to the customers

Carvoeiro Beach

The beach was set in between 2 mountains, with my resort being at the top of 1 of them

When I say mountains I’m not talking Mount Everest

They were easily walked up and down, and had stairs which were quite easy to power through on the climb back up

They weren’t so easy after a few of glasses of wine though

But taxi’s are readily available in the town and along the beach front to assist

The beach is beautifully pale with very fine sand which made for stunning views

There were an enormous amount of shells and pieces of shells in waves across the sand

Being set in between the mountains the sea made a cove, and a lot of the shells which would have smashed up against the cliffs, washed up on the sand and collected at tidal times

Day Trips

There wasn’t a huge amount of local attractions to visit in Carvoerio town

They mainly consisted of the beautiful beaches, the Lighthouse and the Boardwalk which could all be done in 1 day

Golf courses a plenty though, there are lots of golf courses and golf shops advertised

Lisbon is the capital city, this is where most of the site seeing trips took place

There were companies that put on shuttles to take people to and from the attractions, which at cost

You would be picked up and taken to the attraction at a specific time and then dropped back to your resort after

However, even though I was there at the end of April it was still classed as out-of-season, which meant that there wasn’t enough people wanting to go on the trips for them to warrant running the shuttle service

Portugal is beautiful and I would be definitely be interested in going there again in the future, the weather was nice and hot which is exactly the type of holiday weather I like

There were beautiful natural and man made views everywhere it is all very pretty

Beauty

Also being on the South coast sun rise and sun set something of sheer radiance

A bit of advise to anyone planning to take a trip who hasn’t visited before, the cost of dinning out isn’t particularly cheap in comparison to some other European countries, expect to pay more Euros than you would in say Spain for example

Also, if you have the option to book a shuttle or transfer to or from your resort via your resort try and do that rather than getting a taxi from the airport

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